All About Jack

Who is Jack and who is this old guy?

Those close to C.S. Lewis called him Jack. If you want to know more about C.S. Lewis (AKA: Jack) and the Chronicles of Narnia, you should hear about them from someone very close to him. The old guy above is Jack's step-son Douglas Gresham. Here are some links to videos where Douglas Gresham answers questions from Prince Caspian Fans.

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Journey Back to Narnia

Wow! Is anyone else's head hurting from all the information we have been learning from "Prince Caspian?"

For those who missed tonight's lesson, we talked about many different topics. We read chapters 5 & 6 this week. Chapter 6 leads the Old Narnians into war. They realized it might be "quite possible that they might win a war and quite certain that they must wage one."

Read this chapter, if you have not, and read Ephisians 6:10-20. In spiritual terms, what do you think is the difference between picking a fight and waging a war? Why must we wage war?

Chapter 7 has the start of the war. Read this chapter on your own and see what "deeper insight" you can pull from this chapter. Next week I will ask each of you for one thing you found.

If you want to see some behind the scenes clips from the movie, check out this video showing some of the battle scenes.

Check out the Journey Back to Narnia clip here.


- peter

TVC Youth Up All Night Part 2

Cara took a few photos at TVC Youth Up All Night. Most of these are from the city-wide game we played called "Secret Agent."

Amy accomplished her first mission by approaching Creepy Coffee Shop Man.

Disclaimer: Creepy Coffee Shop Man is really Creepy TVC Worship Team Bass Player.

The girls read the clues.

The Girls call the agent headquarters.

Blake's team is on the prowl.

Up All Night

A Couple weeks ago we stayed up all night. The evening started with a scavenger hunt-type game called Secret Agent. Cara Donahue took photos of this, so I will tell you about it once Cara posts her photos. After a couple hours of running around town playing this game, we headed down to Franklin for a little cosmic bowling and video games. As you can see, everyone played with his or her own style.

We grabbed some pizza from Mafiaoza’s at 2:30 in the morning and headed back to the church for some eats, some board games, and a couple rounds of the classic youth all-nighter game, Sardines. I am proud to say that when I hid, no one found me.

The event ended as we watched the sun rise while eating Hot Nows at Krispy Kreme. What a night!

Dance, Dance, Revolution!

Amy had great bowling form

Aidan knows how to rock out.

Jordan has his own style.

Cara is hard-core.

Blake has his own style as well.

Acts 2

I keep finding it interesting that throughout our current Sunday youth study, “Another World is Possible,” we keep falling back to Acts 2.

In this chapter we see the apostles forming the first church (group of Christians). The first couple weeks of our study looked at poverty. When we looked at Acts 2, we focused on verses 44-47. These verses talk about how the early church would take care of those in need so that they “had all things in common.”

Last week, by no plan of our study, we participated in The Village Chapel’s potluck dinner. We remembered Act 2:42. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” Each Sunday we listen to teaching and we pray, but this last Sunday we also hung out with each other (fellowship) and ate (breaking of bread). These were the four things the early Christians dedicated their lives to!

Now as I prepare for my lesson this week, I find myself going back to Acts 2. You will have to attend TVC Youth Bible Study to find out why it is coming up again.

The most interesting thing is the lesson is called “Another World is Possible.” It’s a title that sounds like its telling us we can do something entirely new. Yet as we study, we realize it is a plan that has already been made. I guess over time, we have just forgotten the plan.

- Peter

Frustration

I was soooo frustrated last week. My internet was not working properly. I felt a bit stranded as I was having a hard time sending and receiving emails. I couldn’t do research or go shopping from the convenience of my office chair. I tried posting last week’s blog entry as I was continuously rejected. (If you look below this entry you will see I finally posted it.)

After my internet was working again, I calmed down and realized how silly my frustration was. We have been in the middle of a study on poverty. I was reminded that people around the world travel miles a day on foot just to get water or work very hard to obtain food for the day. Here I am annoyed that I can not post a journal entry for everyone to read. Crazier yet, I was annoyed by the thought that I may actually have to go to the library to look up some information or use the telephone or postal service instead of using my email.

I hope our current study has inspired you to take a look at your life and rethink the way you think and act. I know it has for me. I thoroughly enjoyed our discussion this past week. I have posted some of the scripture and quotes we talked about in case you would like to look back at them.

- Peter

“We can not understand the poor until we understand what poverty is like.”
– Mother Teresa

“In the poor we see Jesus in his most distressing disguises.”
– Mother Theresa

“If someone steals a person's cloths we call them a thief. But shouldn’t we give the same name to the person who could cloth the naked, but doesn’t.”
- Basil the Great

“There is enough for the world’s need, but there is not enough for the world’s greed.
- Gandhi

“The tragedy is not that the rich don’t care for the poor. The tragedy is that the rich do not know the poor.”
– Shane Claiborne

Matthew 25:31-46
1st John 3:16-18
I Corinthians 13:13

Do Not Feel Guilty

The idea is not to feel guilty but to feel inspired. What does this mean?

Last Sunday we learned a lot about poverty. We learned God did not create poverty but humans did. We learned 20% of people in the world own 80% of the stuff in the world. We learned 3,500 children die per day from starvation. We learned that the homeless are not just drunks and drug addicts but different people facing different difficult situations. We learned that Jesus was homeless and spent much of his time with the poor. If this doesn’t seem like enough, we learned a lot more.

We know that God provides for everyone. It is our duty to share what God has provided for us. There is enough “stuff” in the world for everyone. Please don’t feel guilty. Feel inspired! Think about what you can do. Give a bit of your time. Give a bit of your money. Give a bit of your love. After all, are any of these things truly yours? I am looking forward to our study this next week so that I may feel even more inspired! See you then.

Here is a photo of Ruth, Katrina, and Angelo giving a bit of there time and love at the last Parking Lot Ministry in East Nashville.